Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

 Now, I am going to discuss the situational evidence that supports the photographic evidence that Oswald was in the doorway during the shooting. And it’s not that the photographic evidence needs help. The photographic evidence is conclusive. It’s like in fingerprint matching. Once they get up to, say, 14 matching points between two fingerprints, that’s it. It’s the same guy. And the matching points between Oswald and Doorman are easily that high.

But, I want you to understand the situational evidence because it will show you just how disingenuous and bankrupt the Lovelady talking heads are.

The first is that Oswald told investigators that he was out in front, and he named someone who was there: Bill Shelley. How did Oswald know that Shelley was there?  And of course, Shelley was there? Oswald knew it because he was also there. He even parsed it that way. He said that he was out in front with Bill Shelley. To me it implies that there was some interaction between the two of them; that they had an exchange. And I do believe they did. I believe that Shelley ordered Oswald to go to the lunchroom. And that’s why Oswald did it; not to get a Coke.

But, the bottom line is that the ONLY way Oswald could have known that Shelley was out in front was by being there himself.

The second point takes us to the 2^nd  floor lunchroom and what happened there. We know, for an absolute fact, that at 12:31, plus some seconds, Oswald was spotted by Officer Marrion Baker, and Oswald was on the move. Oswald was moving through the vestibule of the lunchroom and into the lunchroom. In other words, Oswald was just getting to the lunchroom. So, what does that mean?

Well, first, since he was just getting there at 12:31+, it means that he wasn’t there at 12:30. It means that he was somewhere else at 12:30. Is it possible that he was there at 12:30, but then got up and left, heading somewhere else for 30 seconds or so, and then changed his mind, and went back to the lunchroom? It was physically possible, theoretically, yes. But, no one has the right to assume it. It is not a card in anyone’s hand. There is no basis to go there, mentally. If it looked like Oswald was just getting to the lunchroom at 12:31+, then by all outward appearances, he came from somewhere else to get there. There is no reason, no basis, and no intellectual right to assume anything else. I am not making the rules here, but I am enforcing them.

So, where was Oswald before he went to the lunchroom? To answer that, you have to understand the mechanics of the maze. One thing is certain: Oswald got into the vestibule of the lunchroom either by going through the door on the office side, or by going through the door on the stairwell side, through which Baker was looking. We can answer that question. The vestibule was so small, that if Oswald had gone through the door on the stairwell side, then that door would have still been open. It was a spring door. When you let it go, it slowly closed. It didn’t slam shut. It had a spring that slowly closed it. It was such a tiny little room that there is no way that door could have closed at all if Oswald was still in the room-had he gone through it. But, he didn’t. Oswald went through the door on the office side, and that’s why there was no movement in the door through which Baker was looking. And when he say he was looking through the door, I mean through the glass in the door.

But, there’s more because Oswald and Baker got to the lunch room at essentially the same time. Oswald was a little bit ahead of him. When Baker saw Oswald in the vestibule, they were probably no more than 15 feet apart. Knowing how massive the building was, 15 feet wasn’t much.

So, if Oswald had come down from the 6^th floor, Baker would have seen him and heard him before he entered the vestibule. And forget about Baker because Truly was well ahead of Baker. Do you remember what I said about them looking for an armed killer, and Truly having no qualms about leading the way?

So, how could Oswald have come down from the 6^th floor without running into Truly? He couldn’t have because he surely would have. So, that is more proof that Oswald did not come down from the 6^th floor. So, how did he reach the office side of the vestibule?

There is only one way, and that is, that he climbed the one flight of stairs in the southeast corner of the building. There is simply no other way he could have gotten there. But, where was he before he got to the stairs? Well, the stairs were right next to the doorway. All you had to do was go through the double doors and then turn right. There was a stairwell there for that one flight of stairs. So, the situation proves that Oswald went from the doorway to the 2^nd floor lunch room.

And another thing that works is the timeline. I told you that Oswald’s departure from the doorway happened right when Dave Wiegman was passing the building. I told you that there must have been a commotion over it that caused Wiegman to do a second pan of the doorway- which he did. All you have to do is watch the Wiegman film, and you’ll see that Wiegman captured the doorway spontaneously the first time, but the second time, he did it deliberately. He actually swung around to his right to pan the doorway a second time. It is 2026, but we can see that in the film as through we were there in 1963. And then, as I told you, Oswald had gone, and so they replaced him with a still image, so that there would be a Doorman there.

But, think about the time. It was close to the time of the fatal head shot, but I think it was  a little bit before it.  Do you realize that Baker parked his bike right on the Elm Street island? In other words, he parked right directly across from the doorway. And all he had to do was run across that utility street in front of the building, and he was at the doorway. So, he did that, and Truly offered to help him. They ran to the back of the building. They tried to secure an elevator, but when they realized they were not working, they went to the stairs in the northwest corner, with Truly leading. And that is some weird shit, that Truly wanted to lead the way in search of a ruthless killer.

But, the difference was that Truly and Baker were scurrying. I don’t know that you could say they were running, but they were certainly moving fast.  But, Oswald who left the doorway before they did, was surely only walking. I assume he walked at his normal pace. So, Oswald started first, but he was just walking. Baker and Truly started some seconds later, but they were moving faster. And the result was that even though they covered the same distance going different paths, they got to the lunch room about the same time.

And actually, Truly was ahead of Oswald, because Truly would have seen him in the vestibule, just as Baker did, but he didn’t because Oswald hadn’t gotten there yet.

So, what we can conclude is that Truly got there first; Oswald got there second; and Baker got there third.

But, knowing the trek that Oswald took to get to the lunchroom tells us that his starting point must have been the doorway.

Remember too that Carolyn Arnold said that she saw Oswald at the doorway shortly before the shooting. She told that to FBI Agent Richard Emberling on Monday, November 26. By “at the doorway” I mean that the entrance to the building was glass: clear glass. The door and the whole wall were glass. So, she saw Oswald peering through the glass from the inside. So, he was at the doorway. She put the time at 12:25. Emberling wrote down 12:15, thinking that that would have left Oswald enough time to get upstairs to shoot Kennedy.  But, higher-ups at the FBI, upon seeing it, realized that it was no good. They stormed back there, like the Gestapo, in March and demanded that she sign a statement saying that she didn’t see Oswald at all that day.  And she did. She was a pregnant 19 year old girl. She wasn’t going to mess with the FBI.

Then, 15 years later, in 1978, the story got published that Carolyn Arnold had recently revised her story and said that she saw Oswald eating in the 2^nd floor lunch room at 12:25 when she was heading downstairs. You know that can’t be true from what I’ve told you. Since Oswald was just getting to the lunch room at 12:31, he could not have been there at 12:30.

I don't know what to make of the Carolyn Arnold revision. Was she threatened? Was she bribed? Was it even her? I'm not sure it was. The whole thing may have been a ruse.

The best treatment of the Carolyn Arnold affair was by Professor Gerald McKnight in Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission failed the nation and why.  I had the privilege of knowing him. I never met him in person, but I talked to him on the phone, quite a few times. He was on hospice at the time, but he was still mentally sound. And I really think he enjoyed our conversations. It was from Dr. McKnight that I learned that the Dallas Police weighed Oswald, and he was only 131 pounds, and he was 5’9”.  That is really skinny. I’m 5’6” and I weight 145.  Lovelady was 5’8” 170, but that was 3 months later. I’d bet you dimes to dollars he was more like 180 on 11/22/63. So, the claim that Oswald and Lovelady looked alike is poppycock.

Folks, there is no doubt that the Altgens Doorman was Oswald, and the fight over it is the Armageddon of the JFK world.  It is the ultimate battle between Good and Evil.

I have shown you that the situational evidence fully supports the photographic evidence for Oswald in the doorway.  There is going to be a reckoning.  I say we tear down the whole stinking edifice of lies, and we do it over this. Stop the lies. Oswald outside.